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[wezza13]

Just had a flick through the relevant Twitter feed and all of the picture editors were on it like lightning!

This one made me laugh :



Considering she gave permission to the first lot to use it, with credit ( ) , could she actually backtrack, legally, and say that she now wants paying and that they took advantage of her? Or has she lost out on any on the first few newsgroups that she gave it to?

 

[digital]

Did you not any of the posts you decided to lunge in on top of then?



And I have actually had images published on the front page of a few papers when we were fund raising for our daughter, y'know, actual news ... look it up if you're so interested. But I think you're just another Royal fanboy.



The main image of the papers here was of river rescue workers scouring the river Boyne for bodies, they found one that had been missing for 24 days just today, I find this more worthy than a crap image of 4 yuppies, yes.




I still don't give a rat's, maybe you might cut it out and frame it and pray to it daily, but that doesn't mean it's a great image nor a worthy front page. Millions watch X-Factor too, and millions of others think it's s***e. Just because you love it doesn't mean I have to, nor that I can't express an opinion about it.



I had missed that bit, so she wants mega money now because it hit big, when she originally gave permission to use it for free? Money grab much!

Precisely, if it had been a journalist who shot this, we wouldn't even be discussing it. I'd still hate the fact it got front page, but the rest wouldn't be overly defending it

You seem to be very angry.

 

[DemiLion]

The reasons this photo is all over the news can be down to:-

1 - The photo is so unique that no other professionals managed to capture a shot with 2 of the 4 looking in the same direction.
2 - She said "yes" when the first couple of people asked her if they can use it and then they have all been using it, and thus those people took that to pass the photo on (see it many times here)
3 - She doesn't know what it is worth and has sold it far undervalued so everyone just paid her like pittance to put it on their front page.
4 - In the short space of time she managed to figure out the value of what she has, negotiated a price and got what she deserved.

I have a feeling it is likely to be mostly 2 with some of 3.

Actually it's 1 and 5 (the one you didn't think about).

That being:

5. An agency contacted her and offered to syndicate the image on a split fee basis (I suspect 50/50%)

 

[DemiLion]

... could she actually backtrack, legally, and say that she now wants paying and that they took advantage of her?

Yes.

As far as I'm aware all of the print versions were paid for.